Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated
one which buried that the recipient, the GC of a company who Amicus-ed us, received a broad subpoena with advance notice— was not the way. @lessig : This is awful. Aggressive lawyering is always a bad...
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests
It presents a new safety challenge that OpenAI is trying to address. — techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/o... Anders Sandberg / @arenamontanus : In an IVA discussion on AI yesterday evening professor Kristi...
Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place
It might seem odd for one app's users to fume over an API, but at the heart of the matter is the inherent messiness of fitness data. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca , @cdamian@rls.social , @lackattack@mas...
X updates its Privacy Policy to allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X user data, unless the user opts out, effective November 15, 2024
and any disputes must be heard in a Trump-friendly court Christianna Silva / Mashable : X to allow third parties to train AI on your posts James Bentley / PC Gamer : The AI opt-out models Meta, Musk's...
CrowdStrike says a Falcon sensor configuration update on Windows triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD, remediated after 78 minutes
Thankfully, Macs weren't affected by last week's catastrophic … Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: What caused last week's major tech outage? CrowdStrike : Likely eCrime Actor Uses Filenames...
Researchers: hackers have exploited a Squarespace flaw to hijack domains, apparently mostly from crypto businesses, that were migrated from Google Domains
“If you bought Google Workspace via Google Domains, Squarespace is now your authorized reseller,” the help document explains. … BrianKrebs / @briankrebs@infosec.exchange : At least a dozen organizatio...
X accelerates its plan to attract ad spending by SMBs, including outsourcing some ad sales to third parties, such as US-based marketing startup JumpCrew
this one will sting Will Shanklin / Engadget : Walmart says it's no longer advertising on X Aisha Counts / Bloomberg : Why Elon Musk Is Accused of Antisemitism and What It Means for X Edward Helmore /...
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler
And even though there are some concerns about the type of data that was used [...] — I'm fairly certain … Mastodon: @the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org , @derekmceachern@infosec … , and @carnage4life@mas.t...
A look at the Australian Securities Exchange's blockchain project, abandoned in November 2022, to replace its combined trading, clearing, and settlement system
Byron Kaye / Reuters : Tweets: @katebevan , @johnreedstark , @byronkaye , and @smdiehl Tweets: Kate Bevan / @katebevan : Modernisation is hard, yo, and maybe don't plump for a controversial technolog...
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”
do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/... Bari Weiss / @bar...